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Foreign.

THE wholesale discharge Of Custom House
employees at Havana caused riot, in which
seven persons were badly wounded by the
police and troops.
A FRESH attempt to kill the Gar is said to
have been made recently by Nihilist, who
fired twice at the imperial carriage, con-
tanning the Russian ruler and his wife. The
first shot missed the Car, but the second per-
forated his coat.
CHINA'S new war ships, five in number.
were reviewed in Portsmouth Harbor, Eng
land, by the Chinese Minister to Germany.
HAVANA, Cuba, is on the verge of a revo-
luton, occasioned by the recent acts of Cap
tain-General Marin in taking possession Of
under arrest. The city is in charge of regu-
lac troops Several fatal conflicts between
citizens and soldiers have occurred.
HOUSES were shaken and people made
dizzy by an earthquake shock in the City Of
Mexico.
A VERY heavy gale is reported from the
Newfoundland fishing banks. Several
schooners lost their dorieS, and it is feared
that many lives were lost.
WIGGINs, the Canadian weather prophet,
prophesed in 1885 that the most tremendous
storm of the century would strike America
on September 10, 1887
HENRI PRANzINI, the murderer of three
persons in Paris, has been guillotined.
TURKEY has acceded to Russia's proposal
to senda provisional Governor to Bulgaria
and Eastern Roumelia.
EDITOR OBRIEN made very defiantspeech
at large National League meeting in Dub
lin.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE and the Prince OF
Wales have met number Of times at HON
burg, the noted German watering-plac
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MOODY will probably 20 to India to do
svangelistic work.
Mrs CLEVELAND Gun harness her horse, and
she is not ashamed to do it.
THE King of Spain is something over a
year cd. His annual income is 81 100000.
KAISER WILLIAMS sanguine doctor fore
tells five more years Of life for the old gen.
tleman.
GENERAL BLACK, the Pension Commis-
sioner, draws the largest pension enjoyed by
any soldier-S25 a week.
SECRETARY AND MRS. WHITNEY and Sec
retary and Mrs Fairchild attended the East
ern Maine State Fair at Bangor, Me.
TIE richest man in Philadelphia is said to
be Isaiah V. Williamson, who is worth S2O,-
0O0, 0,00O, all of which he made himself.
Miss EDMUNDs is great aid to her father,
the Senator. She acts as his private secre-
tary good portion of the time, and looks
closely after his law business.
SIR JOHN PULESTOS, who was recently
knighte:l 10y Queen Victoria, is an American,
and was an agent for the State OF Pennsyl-
rania at Washington during the war.
Miss ELAINE GooDALE is delivering num-
ber of addresses in Connecticut on the Indian
question. She has devoted many years to
missionary work, and is held in high regard
by the Sioux.
OF the 365 colleges and universities IN the
United States, 27S are church schools, aver
aging l3 teachers and l93 students to q
school; 81 are nor sectarian schools, 8verag-
ing Is teachers and 130 students.
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FREAKS OF LIGHTNING.

ONE stroke of lightning killed the i've
horses Of Peter Goodhue, OF Mansion fralrle,
Dak., and ruined his barn.
LIGHTNING struck flock of sheep belong
ing to w. A. Falson, of Wilmington, n. T.,
and killed twelve Of them.
LIGHTNING at Gabrielle, Fla, struck tall
pine, which it split from top to bottom. Then
it Jumped twenty feet to a barbed wire fence,
cutting out the posts and running the fence
for hundred yards.
W. H. BARNES, Of Taylor, Ca, had just
driven under an oak and was dismountlng
when he was knocked seuscless by lightning.
When he recovered consciousness the mule ne
had driven was dead and the oak was IN
blaze.
OSCAR Brown, Of Fergus Falls, Minn., sa'
in his house with his wife and children, while
lightning knocked the plaster from the walls,
burned all the picture frames, set fire to the
doors, and raised hob generally, yet none OF
the family was injured.
Two men in the section house at Dawson,
Ca, occupied bed, the bedboard OF when
was cut into kindling wood by lightning:
Other furniture of the room was also knocked
into fragments, and dishes we're hurled IN
every direction, yet neither man was even
stunned.
WHILE Doyle Brown, of Talking Rock, Ga,
was shovcling up chips, lightning struck the
handle of the shovel and split it in two. The
bolt then divided and ran through both OF
Browns hands anil arms and passed out at the
back of his neck, killing him. An old man
twenty feet away was knocked senssless.
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Shoddy Boots and Shoes.

The manufacture of shoddy boots and
shoes has reached an enormous extent IN
the Eastern States. The public has made
comparatively little protest against this
form of swindling, and so the dishonest
industry has fourished to an enormous
extent. 1t is nothing less than an out
rage that the market should be flooded
with such trash. 1t is especially hard on
the poor, who arc compelled to buy cheap
goods, for no matter how reduced the
price may be, it is very much too high
for the quality of article obtained.
Most of the shoddy boots and shoes put
anon the market are made by machinery,
and the manufacturers use the offal Of
leather, paper, splits, skivers and compo-
sitions that melt away at the first wetting.
Paper and pasteboard soles arc quite COM
mon, but the finish is excellent, SO that
only experts can tell the difference be-
tween the genuine and the bogus ar icle.
We have had crusadcs against adulter-
atcd food, against shoddy clothing to
some extent, why not inaugurate one
against shoddy boots and shoes?-OUaha
Rec
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THE COTTON CROP.
The Largest Ever Raised In thu
Country-Interestin Facts.

The Largest Ever Raised in thu
Country-Interesting Facts.
The crop of cotton of the present year will,
without doubt, be the largest ever raised in
the United States, remarks daily contem-
porary. 1t will probably reach $500, 900
bales, which would be 100000 bales and more
in excess Of any previous year. The crop of
1885 reached $500, 600 bales, and the largest
vet produced. the famous crop of 1883, ag-
cregated 6,992, pa bales. The history Of
cotton raising in the United States is an in
teresting one In 1791 almost full century
ago, the United States sent sixty-four bags OF
cotton to England, and fifteen years later the
export had increased to 10000 bags. But in
that early day there could have been no anti
cipation of the large place that cotton was to
fiji in the productions of the country. In
1S49 the crop reached 6f0,4l5 bales, and in
1853 it had grown to upward of 1000, 600, be-
low which it has never since fallen, unless
during the civil war, Of which there is no
record.
Great as the production now Is, it seems
likely that it may reach even larger figures
in the future. There is still much good cot.
ton land in the South that is not utilized, and
much that is farmed can be made to give
heavier yield by better cultivation. For sew
eral wears money and enterprise have been
seeking investment in cotton growing, and
this tendency will continue as long as salts
factory returns are obtained. At an average
of nine cents pound the present years crop
will be worth in the neighborhooi OF S3OO,
ono OOO Dr.. Goods Chronic
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TURNING OUT TENANTS.
A Small Army Engages in Evict-
ing Irish COttagers.
Defending Their Homes with Stones
and Scalding Water.

The ey ictions on tho O'Grady estate,
Herbertstown, ireland, began few days ago.
The bailiffs were enforced by 100 soldiers
and 300 policemen. All the houses occupied
by the tenants were barricaded and guarded
for defence. The house Of Mrs. Crimmins, a
widow, was the first advanced upon by
the bailiffs The widow and her friends were
well armed with paving stones and boiling
water, and both were showered upon the
bailifs with such telling effect that
they were repulsed no less than four
times. The Sheriff's men in their at
tacks attempted to crowbar their way
through the walls and roof, and Mrs. Grim
minis had the scalding water poured over
their heads, faces and necks. After the
tempted to storm the house. They also were
driven back
Finally a joint rush was made by the
bailiffs and police and the house was broken
into and captured. 1t was found that the
defenders of the widows habitation num-
bered but nine persuasive men and four
women. All were taken prisoners.
A large crowd collected about the house 10
witness the contest They sympathized with
Mrs. Crimmins and did all in their power to
cheer her up in her battle and to annoy and
exasperate the officers When the widows
party were at last overpowered the crowd be-
came frantic, and pressed closely up toward
the house. The prisoners, when they were
led out, sang "God Save Ireland!" The crowd
Joined in the singing, and became so demon
strative that the police had to cut their way
out with batons.
Three tenants on the O'Grady estate were
evicted the first day. Captain Plunkett was in
command of the evictors. The police made
repeated charges against the crowd of spec
tators and used their batons freely, injuring
Mr.. Condor, NJ. p, and several English Wis
itors.
Numerous tenant farmers in County Linn
erick have instructed their solicitors to apply
for a revision of rents under the new Land
act
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

SEQUEL, CAL, has female baseball nine.
The Bostons failed to draw well anywhere
the last trip except at Chicago.
TATE, of the Bostons, has made more assists
than any other League catcher.
NEARLY $50 home runs have been made by
League players so far this season.
AFTER catching forty-four consecutive
games, Boyle of the st. Louis Club was laid
up.
No less than half dozen Of the New York
players are expected to pass the century marx
in batting this season.
LAWYER WARD, the New York short
stop, still leads the League in base.stealing as
well as holding his position.
THE Nets make remarkable appearance
in their different-colored shirts. Each one
is different. and they form all the colors of
the rainbow.
IN team batting, New York still leads, fol-
lowed by Detroit, Chicago, Boston. Pittsburg,
Philadelphia, indianapolis and Washington,
in the order named.
THE Southern League is now composed OF
four clubs The Nashvilles could not stand
the jumps, and disbanded. The League Will
be continued with four clubs.
Boston paid $4,000 for Kelly, and sold
Bullinton and Cunning to Philadelphia for
$500, and in the light of present develop
ments Boston got the worst of it IN both
deals
CLARKsoS has earned the title of king OF
League pitchers, He pulled the Chlcagos
through in 1855 and if that club retains
the pennant this year it will be largely owing
to Clarkson's efforts.
JEFFERSON, Iowa, claims the proud distinc-
tion of being the only city in the world that
has baseball club composed exclusively OF
printers. They have neat uniform of old
god and black and white, and play an aver
age of at least one game week.
RICHARD LYMAN, prominent young bus
iness man, was playing in an exhibition game
of ball at toekport, N. Y, Aug, Is, when his
right arm broke jnst above the elbow. Lyman
was catching aad was in the act OF throwing
the ball to a baseman when his arm snapped
like a pistol explosion. A physician, who e1-
smined it pronounced it a complete fracture
Of the bone. produced by a peculiar twist.
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FATAL TO FISH.

Millions Of the Finny Tribe in Illi-
nois Streams Dying.
Within the past two or three days the fish
in many of the streams about Galena, ILL,
have died by the million, and the few that are
left are rapidly following suit The banks
of the Galena River branches are
lined with dead fish of all sizes and varieties,
from the tiny minnow to the mammoth cat
and sturgeon. At Buncombe, Wis, a few
miles from Galena, dead fish are so numer-
GUS on the banks that the stencil arising from
them is almost unbearable. At Lancaster,
Wis, the scene on the river bank beggars de-
scription, over fifty wagon loads Of
dead FISH being in sight. There are nu-
merous theories afoat as to the cause.
One is that the recent rains have filled the
water with mud, so that the fish have been
unable to breathe, and, struggling to the sur
face for dir, have died. Another is that, dur
ing the dry hot summer, the valleys and
marshes above were filed with some poison
GUS growth that with the recent floods were
carried into the streams and poisoned the
water.
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LATER NEWS.

TIE Pennsylvania Democratic State Con-
vention at Allentown nominated j. Ross
Thompson for Judge of the Supreme Court,
and R. J. McGann for State Treasurer. The
platform adopted endorses the last National
and State platforms, demands that the large
surplus in the United States Treasury be
used to pay the public debt, favors "a wise
and prudent reduction of internal taxation
and of duties OIL imports, and "fully endorses
the administration of President Cleveland" !"
A scAFFoLD inside church tower ut Will
Transport, Penn, gave way, precipitating
four workmen sixty.five feet. All fom were
killed.
THE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has sold
its express system to the United States Ex-
press Company. The terms of sale are said
to bc 81, ,0O0,0 600 cash and 81 100000 in new
stock of the United States Express Com
pany. The B. and o. Express covers ter
ritory Of 5000 miles.
THE biggest elevator in the world is about
to be erected by Armour & Co., of Chicago.
Its grain-holding capacity is to be 1000, ,OC0
bushels.
THE Iowa Greenback State Convention at
Des Moines ratified the platform adopted by
the Union Labor party at Cincinnati and ad-
vised the industrial classes of the State to put
an independent ticket in the field.
ALBERT A. MEADE, a mine owner at Good
Hope, New Mexico, shot and killed three
men, and was then himself shot dead by an
other man whom he was trying to kill. The
tragedy grew out of dispute over mining
property.
THE President has appointed S. S. Car
Isle, of Louisiana, Minister Resident and
Consul-General to Bolivia, and James c.
Quiggle, of Pennsylvania, to be Consul of
the United States at Port Stanley and st.
Thomas, Ontario.
JUDGE ZUBIA, a Mexican magistrate at
Paso del Norte, Mexico, struck United States
Consul Brigham a stunning blow over the
head. The Consul was trying to recover
some stolen horses. Details of the attack
were telegraphed to the State Department at
Washington.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

Mr.. LESTER WALLAcK has retired from
the stage for good.
JOHANN STRAUSS has completed his new
opera ''Simplicius."
SARDoU has written five-act drama for
Bernhardt, entitled MesaIne.
A REAL cotton gin costing 81, 500 is to
figure in a new comedy of Southern life.
THE summer night concerts at Madison
Square Garden, New York. are very pop
ular.
MISS EMMA ABBOTT is to give a three
weeks season Of opera in New York in jan
uary.
AN international congress is to consider at
Paris the best means of preventing the burn
ing of theatres
CLARA NORRIS opens her season, probably
in her new play, "Renee," at the Grand
Opera House, New York, October II.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to organize in New
York Wagner Society, having for its aim
the promotion of progressive ideas in music.
Mrs. D. P. BOWERS intends to produce
three new plays daring 1SS7-'SS, two being
adaptations from the French John F.
Ritchie will manage her tour.
MADAM JANAUSCHEK's injuries from fall
being Of a more serious nature than at first
supposed. by the advice of her doctors she
has abandoned the idea of acting the ensuing
season.
FRANK W. SANGER has brought fnam Eng.
Land new opera by the authors Of "Er-
mimic entitled Dick, and a comedy played
by Willie Edouin in London, entitled A
Tragedy"
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. author of the
famous tale, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde is
coming over from Eng land to be present wban
Mr. Mansfield produces the drama of that
name i'll New York.
MRS. PoTTER's latest play loyal Love-"
seems to be the flimsiest trash Her acting
N 1t seems to lave been surprisingly good
The tone OF the London papers is entirely
changed. They nave discovered not only
great promise, bit many actual merits in her
work,
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THE G. a. R.

Programme Of the National En-
campment at St. Louis.
The official programme for the business and
entertainment Of the Grand Army encamp-
ment which is to be held at St. Louis, begin
ming on September 26, has been decided upon.
Its chief features are as follows
First day, Neutrality-suspicious. of visiting
comrades at depots and steamboat landings.
Tuesday-Grand parade and review; even
ing, formal reception and welcome by Mayor
Francis; grand illumination of the
streets by 100 gas jets and electric
lights. Wednesday - opening of en-
campment and National Convention Of the
Women's Relief Corps; reunion of States and
regiments in Forest Park; excursions on the
river to jefferson Barracks and National
Cemetery. Evening-Street iluminations,
musical entertainments, and fireworks.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS,

THE Abyssinian army numbers $4,000 well
drilled soldiers.
MINING is commencing to revive in every
section of Arizona.
DANIEL EMMETT, the author of ssDixie,n is
still living in Chicego.
SAM CAsoN, of Dooley County, Georgia, is
seven feet two inches high.
The balloon for the Paris exhibition Of
1889 will carry up 100 persons.
In 1865 the debt of the Government was
s7S25 per capita. Now it is less than $l9S4
THE great tower OF Babel, which is to dis
tinguish the French Exhibition of 1889 is
gradually rising.
The eight pin factories in New England
produce Il, I20, ,000, 600 pins year. In England
the production of pins is set at 4,Gl5, ,00O, 600.
. A DOG bitten by rattlesnake in Nebraska,
instead OF dying developed hydrophobia, and
bit fourteen head of cattle, all of which
died.
The largest orchard of fruit bearing trees
in this country is claimed by Ieavenworth.
Kan, which has one that contains 50O3G
reeS.
ira * to see how near he dared let the engine
cone to him. He hasn't got any heel on one
foot now.
A NEW amusement is provided at the Lon
don fairs known as ''topsy turvey." Passen-
gers are securely strapped in barrel and
rolled about.
THE amount annually expended for benev-
olent purposes in New York is estimated at
about 81, 500, 900. There are 32O charitable So
cieties and Institutions
EVERYBODY found smoking on the streets
of Saugatuck, Mich, during the recent dry
spell, was liable to lie arrstted under the
orders of the village council.
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SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

THERE were 912 delegates in attendance at
the New York State Prohibition Convention,
held in Syracuse A ticket was nominated,
headed by d. w. c. Huntington for Secretary
of State, and a platform adopted in conform
ity with the principles of the party. This
makes the third ticket already in the field in
New York.
SYLvANUs H. SWEET, nominated by the
United Labor party at Syracuse for State
Engineer and Surveyor of New York, has de-
clined.
A BOILER explosion in a corn-canning es-
tablishment at Gorham, Me-, killed John
Hamlin and fatally injured Frederick Ham
blen. A third man was severely hurt.
ALL branches of trade in Philadelphia
are reporting greatly increased business.
AMONG the arrivals at New York on a
steamer from England few days ago was
the Duke of Marlborough. He comes to
America on pleasure trip.
REV. DR. PARKER, the noted London
preacher, who has been talked of as successor
to the late Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth
Church, arrived in New York from England,
a few days ago. He will deliver a eulogy on
Mr.. Bee:her at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, October +.
A WIDESPREAD epizootic disease is killing
hundreds of horses in New Jersey.
Two miners were killed and three others
injured by an explosion of dualin in col
liery near. Shenandoah, Penn.
A GREAT Interstate Picnic and Agri-
cultural Exhibition has been held in Cumber
land County, Penn. New York, Pennsyl-
vania Illinois, Massachusetts,, Ohio, Wis
consin, Indiana, Michigan, Maryland, Vir-
ginia. West Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware,
Tennessee, Kentucky and Connecticut were
represented. The agricultural machinery on
the ground was valued at 81, 100000. I'M
menSe crowds attended.
The New York Democratic State Conven-
ton will be held at Saratoga on September 81.
The large coal and iron firms of Robert
Hare Powell g. Co. and Robert Hare Powell,
Sons g. Co., of Philadelphia, have made an
assignment. Their mining business will be
continued. The liabilities are $500, 900;
assets estimated at s., ,00O, ,0O0.
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oNLY-A WEED.
"Only q weed;

"Only weed;
Ragged, torlorn, unkemps of branch and leaf
A common vagabond, hunted thief,
No place it has on hill or plain 9g lea, =
It's growth is waste; ias life piracy.
"Only weed; z
ifs pale discs spill no largesse Of perfumeI
The seeded fruitage of its haggard bloom
Blow broadcast over field and fallow placs Z
In sullen increase of its hated race. -
"Only q weed;
Yet its pale capsules may unfold spell,
A filtered dust, a pollened miracle,
Secrets of price that science longs to win;, .
Occult and hidden power Of medicine.
"Only a weed;
OF this be sure; it was not made in vain;
The wandering thistle as the bearded grain
Is Of Gods harvest; and His richest gold :
The gypsy brotherhood Of weeds may hold
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When Apples are Ripe.

'I've Just got my jacket full of the
daintcst golden sweets you ever saw"
said Jimmy Tuffboy as he rushed into
the house in hurry.
"Where did you get them, Jamcsw
inquired his mother. "Have you been
in Smiffkin's orchard again9"
"No, ma'am. That is, didn't 60 in
the orchard, but l found a splendid
place to sit on the wall and reach
Hartford Post.
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Washington.

RECENT Consuls appointed by the Presi.
dent are: Henry G. Borst, of Maine, at
Pernambuco, and John G. Bridges, of New
York, at Brockville, Canada.
A SPECIAL AGENT Of the Interior Depart
ment has closed seven saw mills in Washing
ton Territory that were cutting Government
timber from unsurveyed lands.
THE pension payments during August
amounted to l6,3O0,0OO.
PROFESSOR G. BROWN GooDE has been up
pointed by the President United States Com
missioner to succeed the late Professor Baird.
Judge McCue, first appointed, declined the
honor.
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South and West.

AxEY CHERRY, the twelve-year-old colored
girl sentenced to death in South Carolina for
numbering two-year-oid white child in her
charge. has had her punishment commuted
by the Governor to imprisonment for five
years.
CHIEF CoLoRow and his Ute Indians have
had fight with the Sheriffs posse near
Rangley, Col. Deputy Sheriff Ward was
killed and three other whites were wounded,
one;mortally. Eight Indians were reported
killed.
HEAVY rains have caused many rivers in
Texas to overflow their hanks with disastrous
results At Ceburne eleven persons seven
of them belonging to one family, were
drowned.
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The signal service now embraces !S2
stations, from which reports are made daily,
and emp ploys about 4OO men, exclusive OF
couple hundred clerks in Washington.
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A company in Russia has equipped
and started for Centra! Asia an cXpcdi-
ton which will establish cotton planta-
tions.
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Respect only those who respect them
selves, and you will have less to regret.